Thank you Lyons.
Re page #6. Did they really write your physical description on a train ticket?
This is great stuff. Well and expresively drawn and a window into a world that has passed.
So, you can smoke Corn Silk? page # 16.
By miniaturist
Superb insight into the early 1900s! For example, in the first panel the train conductor must read a description of the passenger that was written on the ticket- because almost nobody had driver’s licenses or other “government ID” in the early 20th Century!
By The Australian Panther
Given that the cartoonist is illustrating scenarios which the bulk of his audience can identify with, the practice of having ones physical description on a ticket must have been reasonably common. It's also probable that the journey was intercity or interstate.
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